![]() The main character, Sheila, deals with her self-doubt, her ambitions as a playwright, and figures out platonic friendships as well as a dominating sexual one-all the while trying make sense of her experience, with anxiety, hilarity, and lots of great conversation. It reflects life in its incredible humor-and in some of its weird bits that might be muddled or unclear. ![]() ![]() Part memoir, part fiction, it plays with the idea of ecstatic truths in exploring reality-documentary conventions, and it includes transcribed conversations and personal emails as well as prose. It’s drawn praise from everyone from The New Yorker‘s James Wood to, well, Girls‘ Lena Dunham herself.ĭespite its title, Heti’s autobiographical novel doesn’t attempt to provide any definitive answers of how any one thing “should be”-but it is enlightening, profoundly intelligent, and charming to read. It is the ideal climate for Sheila Heti’s fifth book, How Should A Person Be? to be released in the United States. ![]() Female coming of age provides an endless wellspring for artists to draw from and critics to debate-most recently spurred and exhausted by HBO’s Girls. ![]()
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